Raising the Demon

Chapter 96
It took Zi Baifeng three days to visit all the other [-] villages under his jurisdiction.

Fortunately, human beings live by water by nature. Some of these villages may be in the corners of the mountains, or some may not even have a decent road, but there are streams and rivers near these villages.

As long as there is a waterway, Zi Baifeng's cloud boat can go there.

After three days of visits, Zi Baifeng dispelled all his fantasies, and the reality was more cruel than he imagined.

He still remembered the bleak and dilapidated scene he saw when he went to Yan Village. Now it seems that Yan Village is considered good.

There are fifteen villages in Jiuyan Township, only one village has a bumper harvest, and the other villages have no harvest.

The lack of harvest is because the spiritual energy between the heaven and the earth has been sucked away. Now the Spirit Gathering Formation of the Bird and Mouse Temple has stopped functioning, but the loss of spiritual energy has not stopped, it has only weakened.

At its root, the earth veins are like a running water network that is in short supply, and the bird and mouse view is a faucet that keeps running water. Now this faucet is turned off, but there are other faucets in other places.Unless Zi Baifeng wiped out all the sects of cultivating immortals, there would be no way to prevent the depletion of spiritual energy.

The reason why the aura of Xiayan Village was not sucked away was not because of the formula of raising monsters, but because of the big blue stone.The big bluestone has an excellent affinity with the earth veins. It guards Xiayan Village, tightly locking the spiritual energy in the earth veins, as if closing the main valve leading to other places, and accumulating the spiritual energy.

Da Qingshi didn't know why he was able to lock the aura. According to common sense, monsters had to reach the seventh level of "weaving a net" to be able to guard the ground veins and dominate the aura.

Perhaps, this is the unique talent of monsters like stone?

These still require certificates, but Zi Baifeng has already discovered that even if he tries his best to survive this winter, if he does not change the situation where the spiritual energy has been taken away, there will still be no harvest in the coming year.

Maybe it won't be completely fruitless, after all, the speed of spiritual energy loss is much slower than before, and there are still some harvests, but there is still a long way to go before food and clothing.

There is only one way to change this state, and that is to guard the aura of these places.

How can I do it?

Zi Baifeng got the basic knowledge of cultivating immortals from Mr. A Book of Immortals, which records all kinds of common sense about cultivating immortals.

But his demon raising formula is unique, there is nothing to refer to, he can only explore it by himself.

so distressed...

Let's ignore it for the time being, and let's talk about the catastrophe in front of us first.

Zi Baifeng could only take one step at a time.

After visiting the village and returning to Xiayan Village, Zi Baifeng began to work on his first plan.

He remembered that when he first learned about the germs of capitalism, the book said that farmers lost their land, so they had to become workers, and only then did the germs of capitalism come into being.

Now it is not that farmers have lost their land, but that the existence of land has lost its meaning. If you stay at home, the land will not become fertile. Therefore, liberate the labor force, let them create value, and then use the value they create to in exchange for food.

Normally, these villagers would not want to leave their land. Even hunters and jade workers in the mountains have an unspeakable land plot.But now that it is no longer possible to live on the land alone, it is possible to temporarily transform into a worker.

Zi Baifeng called several senior members under his command to discuss, and then called the village officials and clan elders from all the villages to have a meeting.

In the past, this process took several days or even ten days, but Zi Baifeng sent Liu Lieli to pick him up in a cloud boat, and he took them all in one day, and then Zi Baifeng announced his first a move.

He decided to build Xiayan Village with some facilities that had been planned at the beginning, but only stayed on paper.

The first step is to build the road.There is no official road on the road from Xiayan Village to Mengcheng. The road is rugged and difficult to walk.Zi Baifeng himself relies on the cloud boat, but in the boundary of Mengcheng, only the area around Niaoshu Mountain has well-developed water veins, but most of these waters are small rivers with low throughput, which cannot be used for much use.

After repairing the road from Xiayan Village to Mengcheng Official Road, Zi Baifeng will proceed to the next step, leveling an open space in front of Xiayan Village and building a small town.

This will be a very slow process. Anyone who reads the plan made by Zi Baifeng will have to think about it for a long time, but after having a good dream, everyone shakes their heads again, saying that it is too difficult.

It is difficult, not impossible, and there is also Zi Baifeng's affection and the influence of his past actions. If not, everyone will say that he is daydreaming.

They don't need their own villagers to build roads. Xiayan Village will have an autumn sowing next, which is extremely important. Zi Baifeng asked them to reclaim more fields and plant more crops, so that they can have a good harvest in the coming year.The mountain fields are barren and not easy to irrigate. In the past, most of the villagers were not focused on the fields, but this year the villagers tasted the sweetness of selling grain. Even if Zi Baifeng didn't say anything, they would cultivate more.In addition, now that there is Tianhe and water trucks, watering should not be too easy, and the workload has been greatly reduced.

"Even if it's difficult, you have to do it." Zi Baifeng said, "Grandpa, for every job you do, you will be given two rations... Is this a little less? Is two enough?"

Asking them to work and how to pay them, Zi Baifeng was worried, but the old man waved his hand and gave him a policy.

One job, two rations.To put it simply, every worker who works for a day can take away two rations.Both men, women and children can come to work, but men get men’s rations, women get women’s rations, and children get children’s rations. Basically, it’s how much work you do and how much rations you get. The only difference is that it’s double.

This double ration is not much, but it can feed the workers and feed one or two members of the family.

Zi Baifeng originally thought that he gave too little, but he understood when the old man settled the accounts.In this world, the average age is not long, like Zhu Ziniang, it sounds quite old, but in fact she is only in her 40s. When she was in poor health some time ago, she looked like an old man in her 70s and [-]s, but now she is in good health Yes, he can do his work with quick hands and feet, and he can handle most of a strong man's labor.In this era, regardless of men and women, after losing their labor force, they basically died soon. There are very few people like the old man who are old and strong.Assuming a family has one or two male laborers and one female who can work, then they can earn enough food for four to six people, which is enough for them to survive.

Zi Baifeng told the policy to the elders of the village's official clan, and then sent them back to the village to publicize, and then Zi Baifeng began to prepare for the project.

Board and lodging, supervisors, tools, and accounts are another mess.

Several days after those clan elders returned to the village, some people came intermittently. There were not many people who came first, some people didn’t believe it, and some people didn’t want to leave their village. The idea of ​​trying it came, and as Zi Baifeng expected, many people took their families with them - they were afraid that the family members would starve to death before sending the food back.

The first group of people consisted of about a dozen strong laborers, dozens of people, all of them ragged, sallow and emaciated, and dragging their families.Zi Baifeng heard that someone was coming, and when he rode over the snow, he saw these people squatting at the entrance of the village. Those children all had big heads and thin necks, similar to the little stones back then.There are still a few who are still swaddling babies, with purple faces, desperately sucking their mother's milk, but nothing comes out.

In fact, Xiao Shitou is about to turn ten years old. In the previous life, ten-year-old children would be in the third grade, and the height would be 1.5 meters six. It's because of lack of nutrition.And these children are shorter and smaller than Xiao Shitou, and they are all like African refugees. Zi Baifeng almost burst into tears when he saw it.

Don't say anything, give me something to eat first.

Zi Baifeng had found a few village women to form a logistics team earlier, and the logistics staff were all trusted by Zi Baifeng, including the daughters-in-law of Zi Wu, Zhu Ziniang, Yan Laowu, and Lao Tuozi's wife.At this time, they were summoned, and a large pot was set up at the entrance of the village, and white grains were poured into it, and they were simmered.The aroma was so strong that the children couldn't sit still, they gathered around one by one, staring at the pot and drooling.

Zi Baifeng pulled Xiaoshitou over and whispered something to him, Xiaotou nodded and ran back, brought some snacks back after a while, and gave them to them.

These snacks were all brought from Mengcheng, not to mention the children, these adults were not willing to eat them, the children grabbed hold of them tightly, took a few bites and stuffed them into their stomachs, and then fought over again .There were also a few children who were reluctant to eat, and drooling, they took them back to their parents.

Zi Baifeng remembered these children and sighed secretly. Sure enough, the children from poor families have already taken charge of their families.

Polished rice porridge is delicious and delicious. A large pot of porridge is ready in a short time. One bowl of porridge per person, one piece of pickled vegetable lumps per person, mothers are reluctant to eat, and carefully feed them to their children. child sucks.

Strong laborers still have a cornbread for each person, and each of them is reluctant to eat it, so he first distributes it to his children and women.

In just 10 minutes, a big pot of porridge was clean, and Zi Baifeng didn't dare to give too much to his long-hungry stomach. After eating this, these people's complexions improved a lot.Little Stone confirmed his authority through a piece of pastry, came among the children, waved his arm, and said, "Go, I'll take you to play!"

Although Xiao Shitou is still dark and skinny, he is wearing a new embroidered dress—children at this age usually wear clothes that are made smaller by adults, only the rich can wear new clothes for their children— He also brought delicious pastries to everyone. Obviously, his status is extraordinary, and it is easy to win the trust of others. Like a child king, he rushed forward and hugged him.

(End of this chapter)